WEARABLE

BIOSENSORS
PRESENTED BY
SIJO JOHNY

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WEARABLE SENSORS

Wireless miniature sensors

Allow monitoring of physiological signals.
Used for diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Recorded data can be processed to detect patients
clinical situation
T
Two types:
t
1. RING SENSOR
2.
2 SMART SHIRT

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RING SENSOR
Monitor heart rate and oxygen saturation
Equipped with low power transceiver
Accomplishes bibi-directional communication
with
ith a base
b
station
t ti

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WORKING PRINCIPLE

Blood volume in the finger

g changes
g with the heart muscle
expansion and contraction.
This blood volume changes can be easily detected by photoelectric
methods.
Light emitted from LED is passed through finger and is directed to
Photoresistor.
O i l density
Optical
d i off blood
bl d depends
d
d on the
h blood
bl d volume.
l
If the blood volume increases, optical density increases, light
transmission through finger reduces & the resistance of photo
resistor increases.
Thus the voltage generated by photo resistor varies with the
amount of blood in the finger.

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WORKING OF RING SENSOR

LEDs & PD are placed on the flanks of finger.
finger
Reflective type or transmittal type
PD-A captures main signals (Truce pulsate signal + noise)
N i reference
Noise
f
iis obtained
bt i d bby PD
PD-B.
B

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

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APPLICATIONS

Catastrophic Detection:
-wireless supervision of people during hazardous
operations.
p
Chronic medical condition:
-monitoring the hypertension in cardiovascular
disease
-cchronic
o c su
surveillance
ve
ce oof abnormal
b o
heart
e failure
ue

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ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES:
-Continuous monitoring
-Right
g Treatment at the right
g time at right
g cost
-Easy to wear and takeoff.
-Reducing the health care cost

DISADVANTAGES:
-Initial cost is high
-Battery life is less

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CONCLUSION

Th ring
The
i sensor andd smart shirt
hi are an effective,
ff i
comfortable, and mobile information infrastructure
that takes the advantage of telemedicine and
information processing.
It is expected that the smart shirt leads to the
realization of Affordable Healthcare, Any place,
y
Anyone.
y
Anytime,

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